Friday 22 October 2021 | 9:15 – 19:30
Maison de la paix, chemin Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Genève, Room S8 PIERRE DU BOIS DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
Modernizing Landscapes: New Histories of Development and the Environment between Europe and the World
pour l'histoire du temps présent
Fondation
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fondation-pierredubois.ch graduateinstitute.ch 9:15 – 9:30 OPENING REMARKS
9:30 – 11:00 PANEL 1
MORE-THAN-HUMAN AGENTS OF DEVELOPMENT
Chair: SUSANNA HECHT, the Graduate Institute,
Geneva
MONA BIELING, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>British Environmental Orientalism and the Palestinian Goat (1917–1948)
JOSHUA THEW, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>The muse of Rural Assistance in Greece for Relief and Rehabilitation: Near East Foundation and UNRRA, 1944–1947
EFRAT GILAD, University of Bern
>Pork in Palestine: Urban Breeders, British Bureaucrats, and Wartime Meat Production Discussant: EMILY BROWNELL, University of Edinburgh
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 PANEL 2
COLONIAL (INFRA)STRUCTURES OF DEVELOPMENT
Chair: AMALIA RIBI FORCLAZ, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
MOE OMIYA, University of Zurich
>Modernisations from the ‘West’ and the ‘East’:
German and Japanese Urbanisation Projects in Tsingtao, China, between 1898 and 1945 AMAL SHAHID, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>Famine Relief and Public Works Construction in late 19th century Colonial North India
AHMAD FAHOUM, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>‘Rendered Fit for Colonization’: Anti-malarial Water Projects and Colonial Development in British- Mandated Palestine
Discussant: ANTOINE ACKER, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 CONVERSATION AND Q&A
CRAFTING A CAREER AS A SCHOLAR
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 – 17:00 PANEL 3
SCIENCE, EXPERTISE,
AND THE DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE Chair: SHAILA SESHIA GALVIN, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
MICHELE SOLLAI, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>The Scientific Conquest of the Empire: Agrarian Experts and the Discovery of the ‘Local’ in Italian- occupied Ethiopia
NATHALIA CAPELLINI, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>How to Build a Mega Dam on a Tropical Forest?
Hydroelectricity Implantation on the Brazilian Amazon during the Military Dictatorship (1964–1984) SIMON LOBACH, the Graduate Institute, Geneva
>Enclosing Amazonia: The racialized landscapes of the Caribbean Amazon
Discussant: HELEN A. CURRY, University of Cambridge
17.30 – 19.00 ROUNDTABLE
WRITING THE HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE APPROACHES With:
EMILY BROWNELL ANTOINE ACKER HELEN A. CURRY
and SHAILA SESHIA GALVIN 20:00 Workshop dinner for participants
